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    It is not the case that The body as such cannot be thought or approached directly

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    • 1.Phenomenological analysis reveals pre-reflective bodily experience that precedes and resists conceptual or cultural mediation.
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    • 2.Merleau-Ponty's lived body demonstrates that motoric intentionality gives direct perceptual access to one's own body prior to representation.
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    • 3.If direct bodily experience were impossible, the distinction between my body and an object could not be phenomenologically grounded at all.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The argument conflates epistemological limits on describing the body with ontological claims about the body's inaccessibility.
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    • 2.That all descriptions are value-coded does not entail that the body itself is constituted by those codings rather than merely interpreted through them.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.There is no possible outline of the body as such
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    • 2.What exists are only thinkings of the systematicity of the body and value codings of the body
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